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Physiological responses and subjective estimates of sounds : initial results of pilot study (2008)
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Hume, K., Barrett, H., Ip, A., McDonagh, T., Davies, W., Adams, M., …Plack, C. (2008, April). Physiological responses and subjective estimates of sounds : initial results of pilot study. Presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2008, Reading, UK

In an attempt to understand the effect of sounds on physiological measurements, along the positive (pleasant) - negative (unpleasant) subjective dimension, 51 subjects (26 male) listened to 13 sounds in clips of 8s interspersed with 16s of silence wh... Read More about Physiological responses and subjective estimates of sounds : initial results of pilot study.

Soundwalking as a methodology for understanding soundscapes (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Adams, M., Bruce, N., Davies, W., Cain, R., Jennings, P., Carlyle, A., …Plack, C. (2008, April). Soundwalking as a methodology for understanding soundscapes. Presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2008, Reading, U.K

Soundwalking is a practice that was devised by R. Murray Schafer, when he established the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is an empirical method for identifying a soundscape and compo... Read More about Soundwalking as a methodology for understanding soundscapes.